Founded by Carlo Petrini in Italy in 1986, Slow Food is an international association that promotes food and wine culture, and also defends food and agricultural biodiversity worldwide. A global, grassroots movement with thousands of members around the world, Slow Food works to counteract fast food and fast life, the disappearance of local food traditions, and people's dwindling interest in the food they eat, where it comes from, how it tastes and how our food choices affect the rest of the world.

Slow Food USA reconnects Americans with the people, traditions, plants, animals, fertile soils and waters that produce our food by linking the pleasure of food with a commitment to community and the environment.